A group of friends, mostly based in the international city of Geneva, were brought together by an unusual idea – to found a Virtual Nation. They wanted to create a homeland for all of those people with no nation they could call their own; for all those looking for a nation in which they could express themselves freely; and, for those dreaming of a better nation.

Until elections can be held, expected once we have 30,000 citizens, the masses and the Provisional Government of the Virtual Nation will communicate by virtual means. They will meet, discuss, legislate and govern through our website and a regular audio programme/podcast, soon to be available for broadcast on local radio stations.

Of the 250 people who have already expressed their virtual national aspirations, a number have come forward to nominate themselves as Ministers and have been accepted - while others have been nominated by the President and yet to be interviewed for the post. Many other portfolios remain vacant, awaiting the emergin g needs of the citizens and the Nation. Of course some of our proposed Ministers appear to be overqualified for their posts, while in other cases we are not sure we need a Minister, like Defense since we need to first find out whether our Nation has enemies.

And we have Ministers for many unconventional portfolios, like the Ministry of Flowers, currently occupied by the artist and actor Duraid Laham. He has taken it upon himself to persuade our citizens of the importance of flowers and the need to plant as many as possible to overwhelm the garbage overflowing in the streets of so many of our neighbouring countries. A special section and our first audio programme is dedicated to this very extraordinary Minister (in the Arabic section of this website).